Facebook Messenger will Now Support High Resolution 4K Image Sharing

One of the biggest
gripes with sharing photos via messaging services had always been the
limitations which these apps automatically put on the shared images. WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and almost all messaging apps usually compress
high resolution photos which causes them to lose significant quality. That is
no longer the situation with Facebook Messenger because the new updated app can
now support images with resolutions of up to 4,096 x 4,096 pixels, which is about
the size of photos shot with a 16.8-megapixel camera. As most modern smartphone
cameras shoot at near or below that resolution, it's safe to assume that
smartphone photo sharing will now become lossless (mostly).

Facebook
decided to up their previous 2-megapixel limit on the messenger app in light of
the 17 billion photos which are being shared each month on the app. We would
say that it's about time too because 2-megapixel was a seriously low limit for
smartphone cameras today! Let us know if you like this move by Facebook, we
sure did.